Events on Tuesday, June 24

Mayfield

Music

Mayfield

Tuesday 6/24 @ Key Club

Camp Freddy and Velvet Revolver are plowing ahead without him, so the perennially leather-panted Scott Weiland has plenty of time for... 

<em>The Magician</em> (1959) feat. Ysanne Spevack

Film

The Magician

Tuesday 6/24 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

Process Media presents Ingmar Bergman's 1959 supernatural film, The Magician, to celebrate the release of the new Manly P. Hall biography,... 

Pickwick w/ Nick Dixon, Hopkinson, the Hellen Back Quartet

Music

Hellen Back Quartet

Tuesday 6/24 @ The Mint

The Mint is one of LA's most resilient rock venues, relentlessly challenging notions of indie slickness with its bookers' penchant for... 

Ongoing Events

Mariah Anne Johnson: <em>We Are All Well and Fine</em>

Art

Mariah Anne Johnson

Tuesday 6/24 @ Little Bird Gallery

Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her... 

Los Angeles Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

LA Film Festival

Tuesday 6/24 @ Various locations

Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside... 

HK Zamani: <em>Shelter from the Storm</em>

Art

HK Zamani

Tuesday 6/24 @ SolwayJones Gallery

HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... 

The Actors' Gang presents <em>1984</em>

Theatre

1984

Tuesday 6/24 @ REDCAT

George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 6/24 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Tuesday 6/24 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Tuesday 6/24 @ Natural History Museum

Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 

Steve Olson: <em>Art Attack</em>

Art

Steve Olson

Tuesday 6/24 @ 01 Gallery

Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Tuesday 6/24 @ Materials & Applications

M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Tuesday 6/24 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

Matt Dangler's <em>Treehouse</em>

Art

Matt Dangler

Tuesday 6/24 @ Gallery 1988

Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are... 

The Who's <em>Tommy</em>

Theatre

Tommy

Tuesday 6/24 @ Montalbán Theatre

The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was... 

Tillman Kaiser: <em>Don't Worry About the Motion on the Ocean</em>

Art

Tillman Kaiser

Tuesday 6/24 @ Honor Fraser

Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it... 

<em>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>

Art: Photography

Newer Topographics

Tuesday 6/24 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside

This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting... 

Corbin Smith:<em> Venice Boulevard: Close Encounters </em>

Art: Photography

Corbin Smith

Tuesday 6/24 @ MODAA gallery

Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the... 

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso: <em>Lullabies for the Dark Ages</em>

Art

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso

Tuesday 6/24 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the... 

Israel Film Festival

Film

Israel Film Festival

Tuesday 6/24 @ Various locations

The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn... 

Piot Brehmer

Art

Piot Brehmer

Tuesday 6/24 @ Samuel Freeman

Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Tuesday 6/24 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series

Music

Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series

Tuesday 6/24 @ Hollywood & Highland Center

Jazz venues are notorious for their high cover prices and drink minimums. Luckily, the Hollywood & Highland Center is teaming up... 

<em>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Tuesday 6/24 @ Otis College of Art and Design

Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Tuesday 6/24 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Tuesday 6/24 @ Kara Wily Pilates

When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Tuesday 6/24 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and... 

<em>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Tuesday 6/24 @ David Gallery

As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 

A Chorus Line

Theatre

A Chorus Line

Tuesday 6/24 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the... 

Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>

Art

Jerome Witkin

Tuesday 6/24 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Tuesday 6/24 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... 

The Art Directors Guild presents <em>MiniWorX</em>

Art

MiniWorX

Tuesday 6/24 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and... 

Robert A. Nelson: <em>Common Ground</em>

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Tuesday 6/24 @ another year in LA

In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Tuesday 6/24 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

Art

Juan Uslé

Tuesday 6/24 @ LA Louver Gallery

The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including... 

<em>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Tuesday 6/24 @ d.e.n. contemporary art

A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying... 

Lucha Va Voom

Performing Arts

Lucha Va Voom

Tuesday 6/24 @ Mayan Theater

For the uninitiated, Lucha Va Voom combines the treasured pastime of Mexican wrestling known as lucha libre with saucy burlesque performances,... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Tuesday 6/24 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

Art

Culmination

Tuesday 6/24 @ Morono Kiang Gallery

As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Tuesday 6/24 @ A&I Hollywood

LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA...